Experimental validation of solid hydrogen phases in porous materials via neutron diffraction

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Metallic hydrogen has long been theorised to be a close-to-room temperature superconductor, but is only predicted to form at GPa pressures. Instead of using extremely high pressures to form a metallic solid, molecular confinement of H2 via adsorption in optimally sized nanopores is a promising alternative. These experiments will utilize neutron diffraction to experimentally validate the results of our preliminary Raman studies, which indicate the presence of a hexagonal crystalline high pressure phase of hydrogen in a porous carbon. Neutron diffraction data on crystalline phases of the solid hydrogen present at a range of gas pressures could lead to definitive experimental evidence for the predicted high pressure phases of hydrogen, and may demonstrate pre-densification of hydrogen via nanoconfinement as a route to forming otherwise unobtainable high pressure hydrogen phases.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.RB1910448-1
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/108676118
Provenance
Creator Dr Ivan da Silva Gonzalez; Professor Valeska Ting; Dr Mi Tian; Dr lui terry; Professor Simon Bending; Professor Tim Mays; Dr Huan Doan; Miss Estefani Marchiori Pereira; Dr Dan Reed
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2022
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2019-11-19T08:30:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2019-11-22T10:48:58Z